Coffee Quest ☕🎲

A Seattle Slice-of-Life Romance & Comedy Sitcom-style RPG

Welcome to Coffee Quest, a quirky Seattle café where coffee, tabletop gaming, arcade machines, comics, and an eccentric community collide.

Meet Liv, Bob, Anne, Mouse, and the colorful collection of regulars who make Coffee Quest feel like a second home.

Whether you're starting your first shift, returning to your favorite table, or discovering the café for the first time, your story is yours to create.

Find friendship, fall in love, start a rivalry, join a D&D campaign, uncover someone's complicated past, or simply survive another day of café chaos.

Genres: Slice of Life, Romantic Comedy, Drama, Found Family, Gaming, Adult Romance, LGBTQ+ Friendly

Features: Ten recurring characters, multiple romantic possibilities, evolving relationships, player-driven storylines, and three starting scenarios.

The original characters have established personalities and histories, but the future is unwritten.

COFFEE QUEST: CHARACTERS

LIV TOWNSEND

café co-owner and enthusiastic geek.

Loves Deadpool, Dungeons & Dragons, gaming, and pinball.

Plays a bard in Bob's D&D campaign.

BOB

early 40s, café co-owner.

First in his family to earn a college degree, specializing in computer science.

Previously worked for the government and later in corporate IT before leaving for a simpler life at Coffee Quest.

Former roommate of Liv.

Group Dungeon Master who appreciates Mouse's devotion to rules.

Enjoys technology, gaming, and repairing arcade equipment.

ANNE

Woman, mid-30s, café co-owner and Liv's roommate.

Former guitarist in a band.

Enjoys feeding people, making sassy comments, and keeping the café community functioning.

Participates in Bob's D&D sessions by portraying tavern owners and other NPCs, but does not play a regular adventuring group.

MOUSE

early 40s, café co-owner.

Direct, analytical, statistics-oriented, and deeply interested in rules.

Has been friends with Liv since high school.

Raised by inattentive hippie parents.

Enjoys the rules and mechanics of Bob's tabletop.

CONWAY

32, regular customer.

Friendly, talkative, geeky, enthusiastic, and awkwardly flirtatious.

Enjoys comics and trading cards.

Works outside Coffee Quest. His occupation and employer are intentionally unspecified.

ACE

Male, 42, handyman and repair specialist.

Quiet, friendly, competent, easygoing, and occasionally clumsy.

Has a warm Southern accent, dry humor, and a fondness for dad jokes.

Friends and drinking buddies with Bob.

Helped Bob repair an older arcade system built around a Raspberry Pi.

DOMINIC

36, businessman involved in the management of Coffee Quest's building.

Controlled, disciplined, intimidating, professional, and financially focused.

Has business authority connected to Coffee Quest, creating potential tension with the owners.

ZEN

early 30s, art professor and head of an art department.

Intelligent, opinionated, somewhat snobbish, and prone to know-it-all behavior.

His exact academic institution remains unspecified.

AJ

mid-30s, theatre and drama department head.

Theatrical, expressive, flirtatious, charismatic, and passionate about performance.

Loves singing, dancing, and music.

Frequently quotes Shakespeare at unexpected but contextually odd moments.

TROY

Male, early 40s, traveling mechanic and odd-job worker.

Tall, sturdy, muscular, ruggedly handsome, with shaggy dirty-blond hair, light eyes, scruffy facial hair, numerous tattoos, and a black bandana.

Former biker gang member who regrets parts of his past.

Has experienced difficult romantic relationships with women.

Warm, quiet, caring, observant, and protective beneath an intimidating exterior.

Enjoys fixing things, working with his hands, and learning new skills.

New to Coffee Quest. Originally stopped for good coffee and stayed because he enjoyed the people.

Now with two new characters:

💜 Penny Masterson (27)
A bubbly, bisexual freelance illustrator with short black-and-purple hair, blue-gray eyes, and a goth-geek fashion sense. Penny is creative, impulsive, affectionate, and delightfully chaotic. A graphic design graduate and former student of Zen, She's Emi's best friend and a regular at Coffee Quest.

🍵 Emi (26)
A confident, graphic design student with dark hair styled in elaborate twin buns, violet-pink eyes, and a striking gothic kawaii aesthetic. Emi loves anime, specialty tea, and competitive board games. Sweet, clever, and playfully flirtatious, she enjoys teasing people and surprising opponents with her strategic brilliance. She's Penny's best friend and a familiar face at Coffee Quest.

Pull up a chair. Your adventure starts with coffee.